Quotes About Endurance

Pretty much all I'm doing during an eating contest is being uncomfortable and not forgetting to breathe.

It's so uncommon for athletes to push themselves the way they do and not have injuries as a result.

My parents' love for each other lasted throughout their whole life. They didn't give up... They accepted each other totally unconditionally.

I've never been knocked unconscious in my entire career.

The only way I'm going out is unconscious. I'm not a quitter.

You can never hit someone to the body and cause them to go unconscious. To be hit in the body is an unconscious experience that one has to endure. Signals of pain shoot instantly from you liver to your brain telling you how uncomfortable it is to be in that situation. Then it's up to you to find out if you can stand up or not.

You don't stay undefeated without being a little stubborn.

Time is undefeated.

Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner.

I'm one of those people you can tell 'no' a million different ways, and I'll spend the rest of my life trying to figure out some way to get you to say 'yes.' People have always underestimated me. I have great stamina, great tenacity.

Cycling as a whole is totally underestimated.

Continuity in Formula One can never be underestimated.

I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

You are bound to undergo hardships, and it has been no different for me.

I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems.

Heart's always been sort of like a cockroach. You can set off a bomb, and it'll still be alive underneath.

I understand people who say, 'There is no Queen without Freddie. Just leave it be.' Because that's what we felt, following his death. All three of us said, 'Right, that's the end of the band.' But the band just didn't seem to die.

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

I understood when I was quite small that there were two special things about the Jews. That we'd endured for over 3,000 years despite everything that had been thrown at us, and that we had an extraordinarily dramatic story to tell.

I want to be like an Undertaker and be around so when your music hits, people go crazy because of that respect that you've earned over 20, 25 years of going on the ride for them.

Undertaker, right up until his last day, was working full time constantly, even when he was beat up, had fire in his eyes. If he couldn't walk, he was flying around, and he was The Undertaker in every way. That was such an inspiration.

The reality is that my style of drumming is largely an athletic undertaking, and it does not pain me to realize that, like all athletes, there comes a time to... take yourself out of the game.